. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. FRUIT-GROWING AND SHADE-TREES 243 i / the hole before the final layer of loose dirt is drawn around the trees. This temporary placing of plants in the soil for protection is called "heeling ; If the soil is well drained and is kept moist, heeled-in plants will keep perfectly until a favorable transplanting season. 230. Pruning.—All fruit trees, bushes, and vines require pruning, both to improve their appearance and to promote the most advantageous fruiting. Usually from one-fourth to one-half of the annual grow
. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. FRUIT-GROWING AND SHADE-TREES 243 i / the hole before the final layer of loose dirt is drawn around the trees. This temporary placing of plants in the soil for protection is called "heeling ; If the soil is well drained and is kept moist, heeled-in plants will keep perfectly until a favorable transplanting season. 230. Pruning.—All fruit trees, bushes, and vines require pruning, both to improve their appearance and to promote the most advantageous fruiting. Usually from one-fourth to one-half of the annual growth should be cut off for the first two years after planting. After this the pruning needed dif- fers according to the cir- cumstances and to the kind of fruit. The gen- eral aims of pruning should be to take out awkwardly shaped limbs, thin out the lateral branches so that sun- light can get in to the fruit, cut back the long branches so that they will not break with fruit, promote the growth of fruiting branches, and so direct the growth that the tree will be well proportioned and symmetrical. Trees should be pruned when dormant, though at times additional summer pruning is advisable. Many leading horticultu- rists now hold that summer pruning is very desirable, and that the shock thus given the tree tends to cause it. Fig. 143. Pruning nursery trees. On the right the tree is improperly pruned, not enough being taken oflF. The one in the centre is correctly pruned.—After Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kyle, Edwin Jackson. [from old catalog]; Ellis, Alexander Caswell, 1871- [from old catalog] joint author. New York, Chicago [etc. ] C. Scribner's sons
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